Friday, March 16, 2012

Virginia's congressional primaries will take place as scheduled on June 12th as scheduled. Roll Call reports that the U.S. Justice Department had no objections to the redistricting maps approved by the Virginia General Assembly earlier this year. The new district lines were basically incumbent protection plans, though Senate Democrats wanted a second racially gerrymandered district to insure election of a second minority congressman in addition to the already racially gerrymandered 3rd District.